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Hello Guys!

It’s been two months since the last update. Some of you have been asking about the progress of the translations, and this post will give you the answer you seek.

As you might have noticed, the last update of Shin DxD 3 was on 4th November 2019, and now it’s already 2020. The reason why I haven’t given you guys any updates is because I’ve been getting less and less time now that I have my own business. Not only that, I also still have my college, which made it harder for me to find time to translate and update my blog. Coincidentally, I’ve also heard that DxD’s also officially licensed, which convinced me that this is the perfect opportunity to step down from the translator of the DxD series.

It has been quite the journey, everyone. Translating the series was not an easy job for me especially because English is not my first language. However, it was truly a fun ride. I learned so much things from translating, especially English.

I would like to give my thanks to you guys. Thank you for waiting so patiently and also pointed the mistakes that I made, and thank you for always enjoying the translations. This blog and ‘mrleoo’ wouldn’t exist without you. Special thanks zx the editors, and all of you out there who helped and contributed to this series. The journey wouldn’t have been the same without you guys.

As for the future of the series, the translator seat is up for anyone to take! If you’re interested, you could do so by joining the discord channel or contacting zx or me.

In google chrome search for shin highschool dxd volume 3,there in 3rd or 4th search site you will find shinhighschooldxd.fc.blogspot.
There you can read all chapters of volume 3 in Portuguese or change language to english ,i just searched for volume 3 and luckily opened that site.hope you all like it👍

It is disappointing as far as I’m aware the boy work in dxd that’s officially taking place is the manga I haven’t seen anyone working on the licences light novel as yet. Maybe I,m looking at the wrong place though. But I really hope someone picks this up even if just to finish the volume.

Well this fucking sucks ! So disappointed, since the acquired license wasn’t for Shin, but DxD. Shin is a whole new Ip that must be bought. I can’t actually believe this is happening to the DxD community which is pretty big compared to others.

So somehow the people who do the HS DxD wiki have read all of volume 3 and posted what happens (like Issei’s new powerup and techniques). I tried to look for a translated version of Shin HS DxD volume 3 online but can’t find anything. I have no idea how the people who do the wiki have gotten the info of what happens and everything. Anyone know?

This is quiet unfortunate and disappointing. I hope another translator picks up the project and completes it. Seems like this project has gone through a half dozen translators or more in the last 10 years that its been being translated.

Maybe i can finish vol. 3, i have the italian translation and if i find enough free time i can translate in english even if at slow pace. We can say it will be TxT (translationxtranslation), i don’t know if it’s going to be be good enough to give satisfaction to the passionate readers. It’s just an idea, i don’t even have a blog where to publish the chapters at the moment and no idea how to get vol. 4 when it will be released.

It’s not available online.
My translation would turn out more or less like this (spoiler alert)

Vips Meeting

At the end of the battle with the primordial Gods XXXXXX and XXXXXXXX in the Hidden Kyoto, Ajuka Beelzebub was reporting to Azazel, the Former Grigori Governor General, who was within the isolation barrier continuing the long battle against the legendary creature “Apocalyptic Beast” “Trihexa” “666”.
“Really? “DxD” defeated XXXXXX and XXXXXXXX.
Azazel said by the magic circle of communication.
The fight against “666” was a turn system, and Azazel just swapped with another god and went to rest.

What are we supposed to do now
Anyone know where i can read the translated version of it from now on
The raw version of this novel
Or maybe a japanese learning website
Man i was hooked to this novel
I don’t want to drop it
It was already sad that i had to drop smartphone which i liked very much but now my favorite novel
Man i hate it
Those who agree reply with “OPPAI”

I feel you bro I was sad when they stopped translating smartphone too. But if you wanted to continue that they have it on J-Novel if you wanted to buy the volumes of the story. As for DxD if they don’t plan on releasing the release date until May who knows how many years it will take for their translators to reach where we are at 😞

I looked on yen press and I only see the option to buy the manga right now. does this mean they have agreed to start translating the light novel as well? or is it being done somewhere else? if anybody knows I would appreciate the info

anyone know of where you can buy the English version some where and also Leo good to hear from you and I get personal life and shit takes time but not cool to leave volume 3 in the air like at least finish it.

At the rate that Yen Press releases translations it will be @ 10 years or so before they reach what is current content today, if they even bother with going beyond the original series and translating Shin as well.

I really hope I am around and remember to pick the story back up next decade…

I really appreciate leo’s work but it has been almost two months since the last update and there is no word from leo.
So anybody knows why is he having trouble updating the content?? Again I really appreciate and thank him for his hardwork.

That’s the thing I HATE about translators. I know they do it for free, I know that translating isn’t easy and is a long process, I know that japanese is a shitty language, I know they can’t give the translation status or an ETA, but seriously, is it so hard to write a couple of words in a tweet once in a while? I have a job, so I’d understand if a translatior says “Sorry, I didn’t translate very much in the last month(s) because …, but I’m still alive”, but when they literally disappear for months without saying anything, Jesus, it makes me mad as hell… And for some reason, this seems a normal behavior since it happens so often.

Hope all is good Leo and you’re just enjoying this holiday season. I’m sorry if this chapter is just a bitch to translate or something else has happened. Take your time and enjoy your time with family. I wouldn’t be mad if you’re done and just waiting on Christmas to surprise everyone though! That would give me an excuse to avoid certain family members that day 🤣

Everybody please let leo do his job at his own pace and do not bother him with unnecessary pressure.
Personally I would like to thank leo for the great translations he has done and would be grateful to him if he continues to do so.👍👍😃

This is why so many fan translators stop doing it because they have people hounding them non stop. They do it in their free time and dont get paid so quit whining and getting upset or leo will quit too. What he should do is make it so you have to be a member to read and then just ban the whiners so they cant read anymore

Id personally say if leo was like hey going to membership only and it cost like a few bucks i wouldn’t care as i love this anime and sadly they don’t release it in English translate to begin with so like donkdat said stop complaining and just chill-lax.

Hey Eddie can you translate this novel than? Leo may be busy and or otherwise occupied else were and most likely doesn’t need a stuck up prick trying to hurry him up, ether wait patiently like the rest or maybe ask a little nicer like hey leo is there any way we can get a update and or eta on chapter 4 please or you can go try to translate it on your own. take your pick. btw thanks leo hope all is well and happy holidays cant wait to read the next chapter :D.

Or any of Shin DxD volumes, as it will be several years before YP even got close to finishing the first series let alone thinking about licensing Shin DxD. So hopefully Leo-sama will continue translating Shin HS DxD vol 3 and all future volumes as well. Thank you and please continue Leo-sama!

Hi,
I was thinking that if you finish high school dxd shin vol. 3 and high school dxd shin vol. 4 hasn’t yet come out then you might think about translating in English high school dxd dx vol. 5 for those of us that cannot read anything but English. This is because the person that was translating it into English quit half way through vol. 4 and it required another translator to finish the other half when he had his own translating books. Thanks if you do decide to do it and if you know of someone who is already planning to translate it in English then tell us.

Thank you so much for continuing to translate this amazing series. I really can’t say thank you enough. I am so glad that we have someone who enjoys the series as much as we all do translating it for us. I pray that you’ll continue with the series until the end, as you do such an awesome job. Also, finding a good and consistent translator is so difficult. I’ll definitely check into assisting with the editing, since I’d love to be able to help/give back in some way. Thank you again!

Hmphh!
DxD is getting more toxic with each passing volume, it feels like dumb writing at this point tbh, i wonder if ishibumi had ever planned ending, cause at this time this series looks like an complete drag on.
Same story repeats itself with each new volume.
DxD was my first LN and it pains a lot to see it in this state, well this would be my sayonara to DxD (i drop this series now).
Thanks Leo, zx and editors for translating this series this far 🙂

This is just my opinion, it won’t do any good by cursing me in replies.

oh yeah .. the ts haven’t reached the end yet .. do you read ishibumis’ afterwords ? within the end of this volume the after word says that he was hospitalized while making shin dxd vol 2 and 3, he commented on the quality of his work as well.. he is getting better and promises better quality next vol

You rock dude, also I have a request for another light novel för you to translate if you feel like it. If you want to could you maybe translate isekai cheat magician. Many might not like it not I finns it interesting

Thank you for your work Leo love reading DxD and cant be done without you. Also if you can can you put a date when things are posted makes it easier to remember when i should take a look for the new chapters

Hey mrleoo I just wanna day thank you for your work, I really appreciate what you and your team have done you guys are amazing. I recently finished reading true dxd vol 1 thanks to you guys so I appreciate it so much. Honestly I can’t wait till you guys finish volume 2, so I can read it. But know the wait will be so worth it. Have a good day and wish you the best!!

Hi leo i would just like to say great work so far on translations for DxD you are quite literally doing gods work right now for all fans of the dxd light novels who don’t know any Japanese me being one of them i would just like to say thanks and i am very grateful for all your hard work and good luck to you in your future

Hey I just wanted to say thanks for your work, and I hope you are doing well! Just like many others looking forward for more release but I’m guessing it must be pretty hard doing things right in a timely manner and living a life. Make the time to take a nap get some fresh air and take a hot shower to relax.

If anyone is wondering on how to download the volumes, it’s pretty simple. Head over to Baka-Tsuki, click on “view history” and return to before the volumes were taken down, as the PDF’s are still available, and download each one of them. I mean, some volumes aren’t available, like five of them, but the rest are. I don’t know for how long, so download the volumes as soon as possible, just in case, people!

Thnks for ur efforts. Plz notify us whenever there is a delay as u can understand how readers get all tensed up. U r doing a wonderful work. Hope u will continue to do so in the future. Once again thnks for ur hard work and take things at ur own pace. Good luck translating shin dxd vol 2.

Leo-san, is everything alright? It’s been quite a while, and I’ve been wondering when is the afterword being translated? Don’t misunderstand, I’m not trying to rush you or anything, I’m just wondering. Thanks for everything you’ve been doing, and how you’ve been translating the novels for us! Thank you!

I found out what happened to our Translator:
As it turns out… Translator-san was on his way to take the exams when a mysterious girl ran headlong into him. Her proud Oppai knocking them both over into a tangle and her landing on top of him with her incredibly short skirt hiked-up and her panties mere inches from his face.
Having never been this close to the business end of a woman before, Translator-san was confused, wondering if he had just lost his virginity? He could hardly stand-up when from the alleyway behind them a cold crept out and made the mysterious girl shiver. The shiver rippled across her ample breasts and seemed to come to a point at her nipples. Like reverse waves in a pond. Her Oppai’s peaks instantly hardened through the semi-sheer fabric. Translator-san was again concerned for his purity. It was like that feeling he got in gym when he had to climb the rope. He made a mental note to ask his Mother about it later.
As he flashed back to the wedgie-athon that was High School for Nerds he heard the girl: “Time to go.” It was stated in a hurried tone. That is when a glowing circle rose up from the pavement around them and when it lowered, Translator-san had been transported to another Realm.
He is there now, battling evil and wondering if any of the mostly Naked girls that insist on modeling lingerie and sleeping with him every night might actually be interested in kissing? Although he has been saving his first kiss for marriage, the girls seem determined!

So I guess he’ll continue translating once he has saved the Realm and left a dozen Magical Girl Hotties thoroughly confused.

Hi
I thought of something that I think needs to be said. In the original series of High School DxD since it is based in Japan their school year starts in April so for Japan it is spring but in the southern hemisphere where I think you are translating it is fall so I think that is why you are mistranslating when he died and when he proposed the next year to Rias as fall when in the original series he did it in April because he died right after he started his second year of high school in April and proposed to Rias as soon as she graduated high school and left the school gates in March in the original series. I just think it is mistranslated do to northern and southern hemisphere that one is where the story takes place and the other is where the person who translates lives. Also the term OG that was talked about in this comment section means old girl which in Japan means a senior girl that graduated already from your school just as OB means old boy which is the same for senior boy that graduated already from your school.

Quick question for Leo just wondering are you already working on the next part life 4 or you taking a short break not asking you to put it out faster or anything just wondering how translations are going

it has only been 9 days since the last update. just give Leo time everyone has important stuff to in real life. It may take a week, a month or maybe longer but Leo is doing this for us and we should be grateful for that. Don’t get me wrong, I can’t wait to read Life 4 but we need to remember Leo is just one person and translating takes a long time

What the fuck is going on?
What the hell is this?
Few minutes ago I thought, ”Let’s read dxd from starting again.”
So I started reading from Vol-1. And you know what happened after reading Life.0, I got super pissed off.
I first thought, ”there should be some problem in my browser or with the server”. So I opened it on another browser refreshed the page numerous times but nothing changed.

The whole story has become shit. Did someone compressed the story? The story is no more intresting.
Why is the first page of story made similar to the firsh page of Shin dxd?
The scene of Ise meeting with Yuuma, going to date, Ise getting killed by yuuma is covered in less than 10 page?

I clearly remember when I first read this story about six month ago, the story was fabulous, also the story was intresting.
But now, the story have become a real shit.
If you read it, you will notice that several important paragraphs of the story are removed.
Various conversations between Ise, Mohotama and Matsuda are removed.
The scene of Rias, Kiba, Akeno saving Ise from that male fallen angel is completly removed.
If I counted down all errors, it will become too large to comment and I would be unable to comment.

Hey guys, someone could help me with a question? I was reading Life.1 of Shin High School DXD, and I found this sentence: “Her name was Abe Kiyome-san, Kuoh Academy High School’s OG”. ¿What is the meaning of the letters “OG”?. Thanks for the help ??.

That’s a mistake. “OG” is “Original Gangsta'”. Unless the character should be thought of as a “Take no shit, Harley riding, Bad-ass” then I wouldn’t go that route.
Granted, not all OG’s match that description, but the connotations are there.

Hey, Thanks for reminding me. I just tried to resend it and it should be in your inbox by now. About the inactive part, let’s just say that I have my own reason ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). But I am always reading all the comments lol.

Hello, thanks for the update. Really appreciate the hardwork that you put into translating this stuff. I know a bit of japanese myself, though i am not that fluent at it. Can you tell me where i can find the raw versions of these texts so, that i can help you guys out in whatever little way that i can ? .

I don’t think I understand what you meant. You do know the anime has been going on for a while, right? I mean, they had FOUR seasons, and a fifth is very likely (Ishibumi recently commented on Twitter about his surprise, and happiness, that DxD is quite popular outside of Japan).

To those asking for smaller updates: Not speaking for Translator-san at all, but I don’t think that works out so well with DXD.(?) By that I mean it seams there is often times a choice between Kanji and Hiragana for proper nouns? (I’m only guessing that due to past translators notes.) So there can be continuity issues when the same [Item][Trait][Sacred Gear] is referenced later in the same Life.(X).
I could be completely wrong about all that. But, if correct, it would mean a much cleaner translation when he uploads in larger chunks.

Hey Mr.Leo, the title of Life.2 in Baka-Tsuki is different to the Life that you traslated. I have a question… You will change the title like appear in Baka-Tsuki or this will be the official name. Thanks.

Hey Mr.leo its been a long while since I have been on this site, but I hope you are doing well. but I’m just wondering if u could translate hundred if its at least one volume it would be awesome considering that there is just 3 volumes left in all on that entire series and each volume is short compared to dxd for example. But anyways if u could help out that translator a little and help that series finish faster that would be awesome but if you can’t I understand.

Thanks in advance and I hope u continue translating for people like me who has almost no access to Light Novels.

Don’t wanna sound rude but it’s clearly mentioned above that it would take around 3 weeks and if you are in real hurry go translate yourself.
Leo is also a fan like us ,he also has right to enjoy series
Every time a disrespectful comment like this come and speed of translation gets even slower!

NO SPOILERS PLEASE. I really hope the Shin High School DxD series will be translated and i sure they won’t translate anything if someone spoils it for them. Just wish Leo luck on the exams and just wait a little longer for him to be have time to translate it to find out.

Good luck bro I’m also having my exam from November.
Thanks for finishing the volume. I was planning to read it after exams since it wasn’t complete but now I’ll finish it before.
Let’s meet after exams.

Finally it’s done, you did it in a short time period and I almost can’t believe it, I’m looking forward for November when the translation of shin will begin. Thank you for the hard work and I whish you good luck on your exams.

Just one week to go! Oooh, I can’t wait to meet Mitsuya! Thought I wonder if you guys notice in life when Nakiri explain about the wielder of IC and TK, at the part when he told the Gremory team and Issei team about Mitsuya being the direct opposite of Issei. Just by reading it, I think in the future there’s going to be a rivalry between Issei and Mitsuya that will looks similar to the rivalry between Kira and Shinn from Gundam Seed Destiny.

Please do not discuss spoilers here. Mr. Leo clearly requested not to discuss the spoilers. He reads as far as he translates (like zxzxzx). Please wait for the translations to come out. It’s only 1 week away 🙂

It is too funny reading all the people wanting just a partial translation so they can help. [SMILE]
To those that keep this BS up… I’ve been through this with 3 translators and every time you start pestering them for updates they get slower. So please stop this BS before we are (again) waiting 6 months between updates.
Leo is a fan too. He’s just as excited about what comes next as any of us.

@mrleoo01 Thank you for the translations they are amazing. Just a question. Do you plan on translating Shin DxD after Vol 25 or you still unsure? I am really loving the JP to EN translations you are doing and hope you will translate Shin DxD

Hey Leo thanks again for all the hard work and effort you put in so we as fans can enjoy DXD. I do have a question when the rest of Vol25 is finished are you going to put a PDF version here on your website or do you think it’ll just be on BT?

Hello there, Leo. Thank you for taking over DxD and translating for us. When I heard that ZX would stop, I felt horrible, but when I heard someone else (someone he knew) would take over, I felt relieved, yet at unease since I didn’t know how good the new blood would be, but you showed to be incredible at the translation. Thank you for continuing his work, and I hope you successfully continue with your work for the next several Volumes. Greetings from Brazil, my friend.

Thank you for the translation.
Sometimes I find funny when translators say “Don’t ask for updates” and some weeks after there are a lot of people asking for updates lol but I hope this does not bother you because there’s always going to be one of those around.

Hey leo can you please update only dxd vs god part of vol 25 because like me some patience less fan can’t wait. please leo sir .while you can update rest part at once but please update the dxd vs god part as it is most awaited part of vol 25. Thanks for your hardwork.

Not speaking for our Translator-san; but, I think that translations from JP:EN often have more than one possibility. For instance: Should something be translated as a “Brook” or a “Creek”? Perhaps there is a play on words that would not make sense with one vrs the other and that will not become apparent until the next “Life.X”. Just a guess, but I think he really needs to translate in “chunks” so the multiple sections can be made to harmonize.
On the other hand: You got other fingers.

Hi Leo, just a little bit of advice. If you’re planning to translate all of the remaining chapter at once. I suggested that it would be better that you publish some of the translation that you have finished. It will give some time to some of the impatient readers out there to stop pestering you. You done a really good job at translating this LN, and I don’t want you to end up like zxzxzx.

Thanks for translating DxD, I was worried it was gonna be abandoned but luckily you came to the rescue. Awesome work by the way it feels as if nothing happened and I’m glad you are translating quickly.

Really? Hmm, only two chapters away. Well I could wait. Just one more question and I hope you could answer it. When Mitsuya make his debut, Will he be introduced on his POV later in the story’ or other characters POV?

love how you’re working hard on the translations and i praise you for it. but i have to point out that in part 3 of life 2 you mispelled Millarca’s name with millicas once or twice, which would cause those who aren’t familiar with the story to think that millicas is involved with Beelzebut not millarca(ouryuu’s love interest). You may want to go back and fix that.

Man Leo you translate so fast like if it was nothing. You must have studied Japanese in grate length. I got to say I am jealous that you can do this. An thanks gain for the translations it means a lot to me. Also I am sorry if what i just wrote offends you in any way. I don’t really know how to talk to people i am autistic.